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A) William Shakespeare B) John Adams C) Samuel Clemens D) Thomas Jefferson
A) Texas B) Missouri C) California D) New York
A) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B) Moby Dick C) The Great Gatsby D) Pride and Prejudice
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) The Innocents Abroad D) Life on the Mississippi
A) 1900 B) 1885 C) 1876 D) 1850
A) Huckleberry Finn B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C) The Prince and the Pauper D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A) To be or not to be, that is the question. B) The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. C) All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. D) I have a dream.
A) Lawyer B) Doctor C) Riverboat Pilot D) Farmer
A) Louisa May Alcott B) Emily Dickinson C) Harriet Beecher Stowe D) Olivia Langdon
A) Huck Finn B) Tom Blankenship C) Joe Harper D) Ben Rogers
A) 1930 B) 1900 C) 1910 D) 1920
A) New York City, New York B) Hartford, Connecticut C) Los Angeles, California D) Chicago, Illinois
A) 1865 B) 1876 C) 1884 D) 1894
A) Paige Compositor B) Typewriter C) Steamboat engine D) Printing press
A) Grant Marsh B) Orion Clemens C) Henry Huttleston Rogers D) Charles Dudley Warner
A) Benjamin Clemens B) Orion Clemens C) Pleasant Hannibal Clemens D) Henry Clemens
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) King Leopold's Soliloquy D) Pudd'nhead Wilson
A) The Revolutionary War B) World War I C) The Spanish-American War D) The Civil War
A) Mississippi Queen B) Nevada Belle C) Hannibal Clipper D) A. B. Chambers
A) International Typographical Union B) Society for Psychical Research C) American Anti-Imperialist League D) Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
A) Explosion B) Pneumonia C) Heart attack D) Colonialism
A) 1864 B) 1870 C) 1867 D) 1861
A) A mining town in Virginia B) San Francisco C) The Mormon community in Salt Lake City D) New York
A) Miner on the Comstock Lode B) Stagecoach driver C) Teacher D) Journalist at Territorial Enterprise
A) Charles Langdon B) Dan DeQuille C) Samuel Clemens D) Mark Twain
A) "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" B) "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" C) "The Innocents Abroad" D) "Roughing It"
A) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer D) Roughing It
A) His experiences in Angels Camp, California B) A trip to Hawaii C) His journey across the Great Plains D) A Mediterranean cruise
A) Territorial Enterprise B) Sacramento Union C) The Saturday Press D) New-York Tribune
A) Travel agent B) Reporter C) Editor D) Photographer
A) Hartford, Connecticut B) Buffalo, New York C) New York City D) Elmira, New York
A) Sojourner Truth B) Frederick Douglass C) W.E.B. Du Bois D) Harriet Tubman
A) Self-pasting scrapbook B) History trivia game C) Paige typesetting machine D) Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments
A) Nikola Tesla B) Thomas Edison C) Alexander Graham Bell D) George Westinghouse
A) New Zealand B) Fiji C) Honolulu, Hawaii D) Australia
A) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court B) Following the Equator C) The Innocents Abroad D) Life on the Mississippi
A) Ina Coolbrith B) George Washington Cable C) Dorothy Quick D) Henry Rogers
A) Battle of Manila Bay B) Bataan Death March C) Siege of Baler D) Moro Crater Massacre
A) Thomas Lounsbury B) Charles L. Webster C) Henry Huttleston Rogers D) Ulysses S. Grant
A) Women's suffrage. B) Abolition of slavery. C) Prohibition. D) Labor rights.
A) $300,000 B) $471,000 C) $750,000 D) $600,000
A) Tulane University B) Buffalo & Erie County Public Library C) St. Louis Mercantile Library D) Newberry Library
A) Clara B) Livy C) Susy D) Jean
A) Scribner's Magazine B) Collier's Weekly C) Harper's Bazaar D) The Atlantic Monthly
A) Harper & Brothers B) Charles L. Webster and Company C) The American Publishing Company D) The Ash Ranch Press
A) 'I created it independently without any influence.' B) 'It was a gift from Captain Sellers himself.' C) 'I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one.' D) 'He gave me permission to use it.'
A) Danton B) Louis XVI C) Robespierre D) Marat
A) 'John Snook' B) 'Josh' C) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass' D) 'Sieur Louis de Conte'
A) The San Francisco Alta California B) The Virginia Daily Union C) The Territorial Enterprise D) The New York Saturday Press
A) Methodist B) Catholic C) Baptist D) Presbyterian
A) 1895 B) 1916 C) 1884 D) 1907
A) Two B) Three C) One D) Four
A) Scribner's Magazine B) Harper's Magazine C) Atlantic Monthly D) The Century Magazine
A) Sartor Resartus B) On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History C) The Life of John Sterling D) French Revolution
A) South Africa B) Egypt C) the Congo Free State D) India
A) "Die Freude der Italienischen Sprache" B) "Der Zauber des Englischen" C) "Das Wunder der Französischen Sprache" D) "Die Schrecken der Deutschen Sprache"
A) Republican B) Libertarian C) Democratic D) Independent
A) Writing light, humorous verse B) Writing political essays C) Chronicling historical events D) Creating scientific literature
A) 1904 B) 1906 C) 1910 D) 1908
A) Reducing taxes on authors' incomes B) Creating public domain status for older works C) Implementing stricter plagiarism laws D) Extending copyright protection to the author's lifetime plus 50 years.
A) George Eliot B) Robert Louis Stevenson C) Jane Austen D) James Fenimore Cooper
A) Bourbon B) Sansculotte C) Girondin D) Jacobin
A) Keynesian economics B) Socialism C) Protectionism D) Laissez faire
A) Shakespeare Society, Literary Lions B) Authors' Club, Beefsteak Club, Vagabonds C) Dramatists Guild, Comedy Enthusiasts D) Poets' Circle, Humorists' Haven
A) Rendering colloquial speech B) Writing in a formal, academic tone C) Using complex, archaic language D) Focusing solely on abstract themes
A) New York Saturday Press B) Virginia Daily Union C) Sacramento Union D) San Francisco Alta California
A) treasurer B) vice-president C) secretary D) president
A) 'Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass' B) 'Sieur Louis de Conte' C) 'John Snook' D) 'Josh'
A) Oxford University B) Imperial College London C) University of London D) Cambridge University
A) Quaker City B) Ajax C) Territorial Enterprise D) Alta California
A) Nevada Lodge No. 75 B) St. Louis Lodge No. 50 C) Polar Star Lodge No. 79 A.F.&A.M. D) Missouri Lodge No. 100
A) The American Publishing Company B) Charles L. Webster and Company C) Pennyroyal Press D) Harper & Brothers
A) As a land of peace and prosperity. B) As a paradise untouched by human corruption. C) As an extraordinary country visited by the sun, where only man is vile. D) As a place devoid of any cultural significance.
A) Buffalo Estate B) Hartford House C) Stormfield D) Elmira Manor
A) Sansculottes B) Jacobins C) Royalists D) Girondins
A) Princeton University B) Harvard University C) Oxford University D) Yale University
A) Indifferent B) Critical C) Enthusiastic D) Supportive
A) Silver-tongued Orators B) Virginia City Writers C) Sagebrush School D) New York Press Society
A) Independents B) Democrats C) Mugwumps D) Republicans
A) More conservative than liberal B) Primarily liberal C) Socialist D) Centrist
A) Captain Isaiah Sellers B) A fictional character created by Mark Twain C) An anonymous journalist from New Orleans D) Samuel Clemens himself before adopting it
A) Travel and discovery B) Social commentary through role reversal C) Adventure and exploration D) Friendship and loyalty
A) 1980 B) 2000 C) 2010 D) 1990
A) Technology B) Religious reform C) Military conquest D) Agriculture
A) San Francisco Alta California B) The Atlantic Monthly C) Virginia Daily Union D) New York Saturday Press
A) Standard Ebooks B) Project Gutenberg C) Faded Page (Canada) D) LibriVox
A) They were all destroyed by critics B) They were written in an unknown language C) Many were lost or not recorded D) They were never spoken publicly
A) A hospital B) A Presbyterian Church C) A school D) A library
A) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court B) Pudd'nhead Wilson C) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D) The Mysterious Stranger
A) Personal political rights B) Freedom of speech C) Economic freedoms D) Civil liberties
A) 'The Prince and the Pauper' B) 'Tom Sawyer' C) 'Huckleberry Finn' D) 'Life on the Mississippi'
A) London, England B) Vienna, Austria C) Belgravia, London D) Sanna, Sweden |